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December 28, 2016 Review Article
NBR’s Strategic Asia Volumes at the End of an Era

Ashley J. Tellis, Abraham M. Denmark, and Greg Chaffin, eds., Strategic Asia 2014-15, US Alliances and Partnerships at the Center of Global Power (Seattle & Washington, DC: The […]

Gilbert Rozman

ASEAN, Australia, burden-sharing, comfort women, Duterte, GSOMIA, India, Indo-Pacific, Indonesia, Maritime Silk Road, Modi, Mongolia, Najib, northern triangle, Philippines, realpolitik, rise of China, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Six-Party Talks. Russian Far East, South China Sea, strategic culture, Taiwan, THAAD, Thailand, trilateralism, Trump administration
December 20, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2016)

During the fall of 2016, Chinese experts continued to evaluate Sino-Russian and Sino-US relations. They drew attention to Japan’s “Taiwan faction,” assessed strengthening Japanese-Australian relations, and analyzed South […]

Danielle F. S. Cohen (assisted by Dong Jiaxin)

Abe Shinzo, ASEAN, Asia pivot, Australia, Balance of power, BRICS, color revolutions, Diaoyu islands, East China Sea, energy, Eurasian Economic Union, FTAAP, G20, Global Financial Crisis, great power relations, India, Iran nuclear deal, isolationism, middle power diplomacy One Belt One Road, Paris Climate Accord, rebalance, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, Senkaku Islands, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Silk Road Economic Belt, South China Sea, Sphere of influence, Taiwan, TPP, Tsai Ing-wen
December 16, 2016 Open Forum
Caught Between Two Big Powers? Central Asia Under the Weight of Russian and Chinese Influence

In 1991, the Soviet Union’s collapse reshaped the East/West problematic as it had emerged after World War II. Inside Soviet space, a number of cultural elements distinguished the […]

Sebastien Peyrouse

Afghanistan, Arab Spring, Armenia, authoritarianism, banking, Belarus, Central Asia, Collective Security Treaty Organization, colonialism, colored revolutions, Crimea, drug trafficking, energy, Eurasian Economic Union, Georgia, Islam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, migration, NATO, One Belt One Road, Putin, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Soviet Union, Tajikistan, Territorial Disputes, terrorism, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Xi Jinping, Xinjiang
November 24, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (November 2016)

Noteworthy in the fall of 2016 has been the increase in articles about the Russo-Japanese relationship. They accompanied the Eastern Economic Forum meeting of Putin and Abe and […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Crimea, Eurasian Economic Commission, Eurasian Economic Union, European Union, G7, Kuril Islands, NATO, Northern Territories, Russian Far East, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Silk Road Economic Belt
September 22, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II

China-Russia relations appear to have gained considerable momentum in recent years. A think tank report published this year, co-authored by Russian and Chinese experts, argues that, in the […]

Brian G. Carlson

Eurasian Economic Union, One Belt One Road, Power of Siberia, Russia Far East, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Siberia, THAAD, US hegemony
September 22, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

Below I respond to the negative scenario for Sino-Russian relations, as presented by Brian Carlson, and attempt to discern the most realistic outcome for how this relationship will […]

Gregory Shtraks

Eurasian Economic Union, G20, One Belt One Road, Russia Far East, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Silk Road Economic Belt, South China Sea, US hegemony
September 22, 2016 Review Article
Chinese Perspectives on Economic Diplomacy

With China’s growing economic (and political) clout, economic diplomacy has become an important tool in Chinese foreign policy. Beijing has provided extensive inducements in the form of aid […]

Audrye Wong

ASEAN, Asian Infrastructural Investment Bank, One Belt One Road, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Silk Road Economic Belt, South China Sea
August 25, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario I

Chinese and Russian leaders regularly declare that their countries’ bilateral relationship is at its highest level in history. The two countries share similar views on a range of […]

Brian G. Carlson

Eurasian Economic Union, Power of Siberia-2, Russia Far East, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Siberia, Silk Road Economic Belt, US hegemony
August 25, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario I

It has been more than two years since the Ukraine crisis ushered in a new era in Sino-Russian relations. Many analysts argue that the Sino-Russian rapprochement began much […]

Gregory Shtraks

Eurasian Economic Union, One Belt One Road Initiative, Russia Far East, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Silk Road Economic Belt, US hegemony
August 24, 2016 Open Forum
Washington Insights

In the summer of 2016, Washington DC has been consumed with the Clinton-Trump race and the unprecedented revolt of the Republican national security establishment against their party’s presidential […]

Editorial Staff

alliance building, Cold War, rebalance, sanctions, Sea of Okhotsk, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, THAAD